The FTC has enough staff to pursue its case against Amazon after all

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Federal Trade Commission doesn’t have any staffing issues that will impact its ability to face Amazon in trial after all, an attorney for the government said in a filing to a federal court, hours after saying they needed a two-month delay. The surprising letter appeared Wednesday in the docket for the FTC’s deceptive practices lawsuit accusing Amazon of misleading consumers with its Prime sign-up and cancellation flow. At a hearing earlier that day, FTC attorney Jonathan Cohen told Judge John Chun that they needed to push the trial start date back from September 22nd, since, “we have lost employees in the agency, in our division and on our case team,” CNBC reported. Just hours later, Cohen filed a signed letter to “clarify” his statement. “I was wrong,” Cohen writes ... Read full article.